We’ve come a long way from “Home Alone” and “While You Were Sleeping.”

This year’s batch of Chicago-set holiday movies include “The Christmas Chronicles,” “The Princess Switch,” “Christmas Lost and Found,” “Once Upon a Christmas Miracle,” “Jingle Around the Clock,” “No Sleep ‘Til Christmas” and “Christmas at Graceland.” In these versions of fairy-tale Chicago, you know your trash collector by name; you wear a “Chicago” hat to indicate you live in Chicago and you hardly get in trouble for letting your reindeer loose in the city.

The problem with these “Chicago” movies is they were filmed elsewhere and not much effort went into recreating even the basic look of our city. From geography to streetwear, here are the glaring Chicago errors in each of these seven films.

Premise: Chicago singer-turned-financial-executive Laurel Couper (played by “American Idol” alumna Kellie Pickler) visits her hometown of Memphis to close a deal to take over the city’s oldest family-owned bank. She ends up reconnecting with her former music partner (Wes Brown).

Greatest Chicago gaffe: The movie was primarily filmed in Memphis in July, and only a few minutes are set in Chicago. Footage of our skyline, CTA holiday train and Christkindlmarket sets the scene. Much of the Chicago action takes place inside the fictional Chicago Financial Corporation.

Worst Chicago dialogue: “Don’t they have Christmas festivals in Chicago?” Couper’s friend asks. “Well sure, but they can never get the pecan pie quite right,” she replies.

Premise: Massachusetts siblings (played by Darby Camp and Judah Lewis) trying to catch a glimpse of Santa (Kurt Russell) cause his sleigh to crash in Chicago. Santa, of course, has a run-in with Chicago police.

Greatest Chicago gaffe: The movie — which was produced by “Home Alone” director Chris Columbus and others — was mostly filmed in Canada, but the filmmakers did spend some time here for aerial shots. There is a train versus sleigh scene at the end of the movie that showcases actual CTA stops. Still, the look of the Chicago streets and jail is all wrong. Sure, you would probably meet some colorful characters on Christmas Eve in a Chicago jail, but it seems unlikely that you would form a jailhouse band and play a Christmas concert.

Worst Chicago dialogue: “Christmas spirit is already down to 31 percent,” Santa tells a Chicago police officer. “The longer I stay in here, the lower it’s going to go. The lower it goes, means that people are going to start acting cranky, depressed, angry, and that’s when bad things start to happen, like a lot more crime — more than you’ve seen around here in a long time, and we’re in Chicago for goodness sake.”

Premise: New York City event planner Whitney Kennison (played by Tiya Sircar) visits her grandmother (Diane Ladd) in Chicago for the holiday. While unpacking, Kennison accidentally throws out a box of sentimental ornaments her grandmother gave her. As she tracks down these keepsakes, she also tries to prevent an iconic Chicago department store from going out of business and falls in love with Brian, her grandmother’s neighbor (Edward Ruttle).

Greatest Chicago gaffe: Where to begin? The movie was filmed in Canada — and it shows. Let’s start with Kennison throwing out the box of ornaments. A sanitation worker comes to the curb and gingerly places the box holding the ornaments into his truck. Kennison’s grandmother knows her garbage man by name, which ends up coming in handy. Hayes and Company, the department store in the movie, appears to be inspired by Marshall Field’s, which was acquired by Macy’s in 2005. It’s too bad no one thought of an out-of-the-box window display to save the State Street store.

Premise: Elle Bennet (played by Brooke Nevin) tries to plan Misfit Christmas, the annual party for her college friends, while applying for the creative director position at her Chicago ad agency. She finds love — and ornaments — at our Christmas Fair.

Greatest Chicago gaffe: Filmmakers tried to recreate the look of downtown Chicago in Canada. The Christmas Fair stands in for the Christkindlmarket, and the Granville Red Line stop on the North Side is now downtown and serves the Orange, Brown, Green, Pink and Purple lines.

Worst Chicago dialogue: “I’m heading uptown. Are you coming?” Bennet’s coworker asks her as they walk by the Granville stop.

Premise: Chicago event planner Lizzie Hinnel and Chicago bartender Billy Wilson cross paths when they take extreme measures to try to fall asleep. Real-life married couple Odette and Dave Annable play the insomniacs.

Greatest Chicago gaffe: Though this movie was filmed in Canada, there are some memorable Chicago touches. Wilson wears a Cubs backpack when he and Hinnel check into the Hotel Racine. There are some visits to the North Shore Hospital. The biggest eyebrow-raiser is when Hinnel throws herself in front of a CTA bus to get it to stop — and spoiler alert — doesn’t die.

Premise: A Chicago-area woman (played by Aimee Teegarden) in need of a liver transplant finds a donor and future husband (Brett Dalton). The movie is based on a true story: Tinley Park’s Heather Krueger met and married her liver donor, Frankfort village employee Chris Dempsey. The Hallmark version takes some liberties. Krueger was diagnosed in March 2014, not Christmastime, and their recovery took longer than a few days.

Greatest Chicago gaffe: The movie was filmed in Canada, and stock footage of snowy Chicago sets the scene. Much of the action takes place indoors, so we’re mostly spared from inauthentic exteriors. In real life, Krueger studied at Moraine Valley Community College to be a medical assistant as she battled liver disease. In the movie, she is a first-year graduate student at what must be one of the most beautiful nursing schools in the world.

Worst Chicago dialogue: “You know, I’ve always been kind of restless. If you ask my mom, she says it’s because I was born on the windiest day of the year,” Dempsey says.

Premise: A “down-to-earth” Chicago baker (played by Vanessa Hudgens) gets invited to an international baking competition in Belgravia (a made-up country), where she runs into a distant, royal relative (also Hudgens). They switch places and fall in love with each other’s partners.

Greatest Chicago gaffe: The movie was filmed in Romania, and only the first five minutes are set in Chicago. You know it’s Chicago because there is stock footage of the Loop, snow on the ground and a “Chicago” hat on Hudgens’ head. The cap, with its ugly pink letters, is something a tourist might buy at a drug store here. Sadly, Hudgens’ character brings the hat with her to the exotic, foreign land, and it becomes part of her ruse and later, a talking point on Twitter among viewers.